Marketing

The End of ‘Good Enough’ Data: Advertising’s Shift Toward Defensible Performance

For most of the last decade, performance marketing was rewarded for momentum. Spend efficiently. Scale quickly.  Optimize continuously. If the line went up and to the right, few questions followed. But that era is ending, because performance without accountability is no longer credible. Performance is being redefined as not only the ability to generate outcomes […]

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Local Media Needs Consolidation To Compete, But An Outdated Legal Standard Stands In The Way

When I was a kid, my dad ran a small local business. Like countless owners, he depended on local broadcast media to reach customers, build trust in the community and keep the lights on to support our family.  That connection between local media and local livelihoods left a lasting impression on me and pulled me

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How the MLS plans to convert World Cup interest into lasting soccer fandom

This summer’s soccer World Cup tournament will provide a rare opportunity for major advertisers looking to engage sports audiences over a month-long festival of footwork, free kicks and the occasional foul — all taking place in the U.S and Mexico. But Major League Soccer (MLS) has a bigger ambition: to convert U.S. viewers entertaining a

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‘Comment sections are not customers’: American Eagle brings back Sydney Sweeney amid celebrity push

Less than a year after some backlash to American Eagle’s decision to enlist actress Sydney Sweeney as the face of its brand, the retailer is reinvesting in its celebrity strategy. Last week, the blonde haired, blue-eyed actress joined the retailer to ring in the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The NYSE appearance

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TikTok Shop reverses U.S. shipping policy amid merchant concerns over costs and fulfillment challenges

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. TikTok Shop has reversed course on its plan to end seller-fulfilled shipping in the U.S., telling merchants that previously announced deadlines will no longer go into effect. In an email sent to sellers Tuesday evening and reviewed by Modern Retail, TikTok Shop said, “At this

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Media Briefing: Publishers explore selling AI visibility know-how to brands

This week’s Media Briefing will look at how publishers are seeing an opportunity to turn their AI citation strategies into a new revenue stream by helping brands gain visibility inside ChatGPT and Google’s AI results. Publishers are seeing if they can package their AI citation playbooks into a product to sell FT joins Google’s AI

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